The third volume of this three-part report provides additional information concerning a study of faculty development in the three segments of California public higher education: the University of California, California State University, and the California Community Colleges. Section I of this volume presents study findings and background material on faculty development that were not included in Volume II (Findings): context and categories of faculty development, faculty perceptions of effectiveness, and development activity by rank and gender. Section II describes the study's design and methodology. Section III presents statistical estimates bearing on the findings presented in the first two volumes (inter-subject variation, non-response bias, and gender and rank biases). Thirty-five tables are presented. Two appendices list the members of the study's advisory committee and examples of study data collection instruments which comprise one-third of the document. (KM)